Back in 2018, former Absu guitarist Melissa Moore said that she had been kicked out of the band for being transgender. Absu broke up earlier this year; they had previously announced an album called ...

A guy on a cell phone stands outside of a Washington state casino and drops this: “I wanted to take a vacation from the Celtic aspect of my writing and get back into the myths and fables of The ...

BV Chicago mentioned a few weeks back that the great American black metal band Absu will be embarking on a second North American tour in November. (Their first tour this year hit NYC back in April.) ...

For more than three decades, Dallas group Absu has carved a space in the industry as a quintessential black metal band, but this reign came to an abrupt end in January when the band announced its ...

It’s rare that MS contributor Grim Kim chooses to heap praise upon bands the rest of actually know and love, but there it is, dangling like a big, juicy meatball: Absu’s Abzu as one of her picks for ...

Black metallers Absu have broken up. Longtime drummer and vocalist Proscriptor McGovern (Russ R. Givens), who joined the band a year after their formation in 1992, announced their dissolution this ...

Covering 42 dates, Absu's routing takes them from the East Coast in Virginia across the entire country, up through Canada and finishing close to where they started in North Carolina on April 30. The ...

In heavy metal, the battle between seriousness and silliness can often seem like a binary. Either an act just wants to play real hard and real fast while singing about drinking, hanging with wizards, ...